Col. IV, 6. Let your speech be always with grace, seasoned with salt, that ye may know how ye ought to answer every man.
2 Pet. II, 7. And delivered just Lot, vexed with the filthy conversation of the wicked.
Isaiah IX, 17. Therefore the Lord shall have no joy in their young men, neither shall have mercy on their fatherless and widows: for every one is a hypocrite and an evil doer, and every mouth speaketh folly. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.
1 Tim. I, 4. Neither give heed to fables and endless genealogies, which minister questions, rather than godly edifying which is in faith: so do.
2 Tim. II, 14. Of these things put them in remembrance, charging them before the Lord that they strive not about words to no profit, but to the subverting of the hearers.
2 Tim. II, 16. But shun profane and vain babblings: for they will increase unto more ungodliness.
Titus III, 9. But avoid foolish questions, and genealogies, and contentions, and strivings about the law; for they are unprofitable and vain.
8. Flattery is Forbidden.
Prov. XX, 19. He that goeth about as a talebearer revealeth secrets: therefore meddle not with him that flattereth with his lips.
Prov. XXVI, 28. A lying tongue hateth those that are afflicted by it; and a flattering mouth worketh ruin.